Stabroek Weekend

The paramount news items in chess this week are Taffin Khan’s unsullied victory of the Guyana National Championship, and Magnus Carlsen’s win on his home turf in Norway Chess.

In the courts Gold to silver trio charged: The three persons who earlier this week allegedly attempted to smuggle over 240 ounces of gold to the United States pleaded not guilty to the joint charge when they appeared before the court last Thursday and have each been placed on $600,000 bail.

Until I was 17 years old, I celebrated my birthday on the 30th of May.

The first instrument Cassie Adams learned to play was the steel pan, while she was at the Bishops’ High School (BHS).

If I were 93 years old and on my fifth marriage, I too would probably rock sneakers to my wedding, I thought when I came across Rupert Murdoch’s latest wedding photos.

“As a mother I am hurting for my child and all I can do is pray that everything works.

Let me write as the spirit moves me, and as memories crowd the mind, about a good man through and through and a citizen of incomparable quality.

This week’s preview June 10th to 16th 2024 Seven years nah too much fuh wash speck off ah bird neck!

Breaking Down Sexual Offences This week we will examine an offence which is like, or an example of last week’s offence.

We are in a dystopian futuristic version of Australia where the sprawling plains have degenerated into miles and miles of radioactive wasteland.

Each time Magnus Carlsen gets defeated in a chess game, it reverberates as news in the chess world.

LUCAS STOCK INDEX (LSI) The Lucas Stock Index rose 0.015 percent on the sale of 103,480 shares during the first period of trading in June 2024. 

In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Cricket Roger Seymour recounts two visits by the West Indies cricket team to the South Pacific.

Forty women from regions Seven (Cuyuni/Mazaruni) and Nine (Upper Takutu/Upper Essequibo) recently graduated from the Atlantic Maritime and Offshore Training Institute (AAMOTI) through a fully-funded scholarship programme that was a collaboration between the Office of the First Lady and the institute, a release from the First Lady’s Office stated.

Two women are counting their blessings and are full of gratitude after receiving the keys to their much-needed newly constructed homes.

Errors are a natural part of life, and they come in many different forms and sizes.

Akima McPherson: How does it feel to be back in Guyana exhibiting again?

News reports yesterday suggest that the Ministry of Education will soon pronounce on the issue of the flogging of ten Queen’s College students by a senior teacher which occurred on May 16.

Picking up on the theme from last week, of time and developing flavour, this week I am sharing with you a curry chicken that took, wait for it, 1 hour and 22 minutes to cook.

LOVE’S GUIDE    One could see the beauty of the body But could only feel the beauty of the soul But what does it matter True love is blind Feeling is her seeing eyes                                                 Ivan Forrester    [Inside Guianame, 4TH Edition, Spring, 2024, Guyana and Suriname, 2024; 120pp.;